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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 27, 20084 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 2:22 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2008, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2008, 2:53 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 229 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 1:46 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:46 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:52 AM EDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
352 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-280800-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-
ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-
HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-
CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-
MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-
GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-
PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-
GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-
ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
352 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVLOP THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UNSTABLE
AIRMASS PERSISTS ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL THE SIZE OF
PENNIES OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEKEND AHEAD OF AN
APPROACHING COLD FRONT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND A FEW OF THESE COULD BECOME STRONG TO
SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ON SUNDAY...STRONG
TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE
AFTERNOON. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL WILL
BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

KRENTZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:25 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:29 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:35 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:55 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	32 min
Jun 27, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	27 min
Jun 27, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	53 min
Jun 27, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	33 min
Jun 27, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Madison	51 min
Jun 27, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	53 min
Jun 27, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	28 min
Jun 27, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk	31 min
Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	48 min
Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 27, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	18 min
Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	63 min
Jun 27, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	66 min
Jun 27, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.